The Dichotomy of Leadership Chapter 5-6

What is the most effective way to improve the team’s performance?

• Create frequently recurring trainings.

• Make sure every team member is coached every single day.

• Feedback sessions every hour.

Advanced tactics are worthless if the team can’t do the basics well.

• True, leaders must ensure that a training program develops the foundation of basic fundamentals.

• True, leaders must ensure that a training program develops trainings on the identified areas of improvement.

If the training doesn’t push the team, beyond the limits of what is easy, the teams and particularly the leaders within the team, will never develop the capacity to take on __________.

• Greater decisions

• Greater challenges

• Greater adventures

Training is essential, but if training is too hard, it will break the team and minimize___________. So, there must be a balance: train hard, but train smart.

• Performance

• Teams’ motivation

• Learning and growth

Leaders must find the balance in training and focus on three critical aspects.

• Realism, fundamentals, and repetition.

• Fundamentals, foundations, and realism.

• Fundamentals, realism, and breakpoints.

Leaders who pushed their people to excel, continuously learn and growth, enable their teams to become comfortable in situations where they were previously successful.

• True

• False

Trainings must simulate realistic challenges and apply pressure to ___________. There is no growth in the comfort zone.

• Decision-makers

• Team Members

While being aggressive is a great default attitude to have, it still must be balance with caution and careful consideration.

• True, to ensure it is not a case of excessive risk with limited reward.

• True, to ensure risks are worthy and expected.

Problems aren’t going to solve themselves, a leader must get aggressive and take action. Being too passive and waiting for a solution to appear often enables problems to get fixed with time.

• True

• False

The best leaders and teams don’t wait to act, what do they do instead? 

• They understand the strategic vision, they execute to overcome obstacles, and capitalize on immediate opportunities.

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  They understand the strategic vision, they execute to overcome obstacles, and wait for the enemy to back off.

• Wait for changes to implement, they execute to overcome obstacles, and capitalize on immediate opportunities.